Entry Description: One of my favorite subject in photography is capturing human interest especially on their everyday living and silhouettes photography."Sakada's" a farmer working on a sugar farm plantation. This photo was taken during our travel from the nearby town my photography buddy spotted this scene. We take off on the jeepney to take a series of shots of this scene. Based on our interview with some of these sugar farm workers, they said that they were from faraway provinces of Bicol and Negros. They are joining with their relatives and some friends on where there are a sugar farm need to plants and harvest. They need to get away and do this for the sake and sustain the everyday living of their families even if it is a small amount of salary. One of them said, it is difficult to stay away from their family but they need to sacrifice and work hard, they are not like us who finished and graduated in college. They are not doing this job if they have enough money to support their study and graduated. I gave thanks and told to them, we appreciated and value their works because as a simple citizen I am thankful because we have sugars we used in our everyday living just because of them. Farmers are very important to our community specially in our country.After some talks, I had noticed that the sun is already set and gives a beautiful hues of colors but the farmers are still working, I grab my point-and-shoot camera position in a very good angle and the results are these photos the series of "Working Silhouettes". I used Lightroom to adjust some contrast, shadows, simple cropping and saturation. This photo taken at San Agustin in Ibaan province of Batangas in the Philippines.

About Photographer: ​

I'm Allan Fesalbon Castañeda of Ibaan Batangas in the Philippines a 33 years old started pursuing photography in 2007 using a point-and-shoot camera. By 2011, I was being recognized in my home province of Batangas, and 2014 received my first local award for my work. In 2015, I took home many national awards and prizes for my photographs, awarded as Batangas Province Photographer of the Year, and in 2016 I took home again many international and national awards. In 2016, my country recognized me and gave an award which is "Ani ng Dangal Award" (Harvest of Honors) in Visual Arts Category (Photography). My Photographs have also been published locally and internationally, in print and online.